bag n.2
1. taste, disposition, attitude, occupation, preference, way of life.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | et al. Jazz Word 188: Man, that’s really in another bag. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Oz 3 6/3: ‘Get into a responsibility bag,’ he urged some 400 friends. | |
| Dopefiend (1991) 197: Your taste runs in a very weird bag, baby. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 97: Why don’ he come from out de bag he’s in up to yo’ level. | |
| Quiet Fire 28: All they do is gossip. That’s not my bag. | |
| Buddha of Suburbia 11: ‘Don’t you just love Bach?’ ‘It’s not really my bag.’. | |
| Tattoo of a Naked Lady 51: ‘Ooooh, golden showers,’ she gushed [...] ‘Sorry, dollface, that ain’t my bag.’. | |
| Guardian G2 3 Feb. 16/3: ‘But given my druthers now, those kinds of shows aren’t my bag’ . | |
| Razorblade Tears 167: ‘I can't have you messing with my bag’. |
2. one’s preferred drug.
| Delinquency, Crime, and Social Process 814: Weed and crystals is my bag. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 2: Bag — [...] a person’s favorite drug. |
In phrases
1. (US black) to act in an obnoxious manner.
 | Widening Circles 39: This is no time to come out of a bag, Marvin [HDAS]. |
2. to act contrary to expectations, to behave illogically in a given situation.
| Black Talk. |
(US campus) to pursue one’s own interests.
| Current Sl. I:2 3/1: Get . . . own bag going, v. To have an interest in something that others are not interested in. |
(US black) to have a problem; thus have a bag and a half, to have a very great problem.
| Current Sl. III–IV (Cumulation Issue) 6: Bag, n. A problem. |